| This, plus an ending so brainlessly upbeat it looks as if it was borrowed from a different movie, makes The Bone Collector the least impressive release of the week. |
| The rest of the book, set in an unlikely Aztec jungle, was mainly astonishing for repetitious misogyny, as the heroine, Eden, lusted brainlessly after her erstwhile boss, and half-mutated into a jaguar. |
| Look, if the boy is cute-as-a-button but brainlessly boring, stick it out through coffee. |
| Daniel will remind some readers of those hapless characters in Iris Murdoch's novels who fall in love — blissfully and brainlessly — with strikingly emblematic individuals whom they scarcely know. |
| The tool is brainlessly simple, yet packed with enough options to please even the most demanding music professionals. |
| Statistics are recycled brainlessly because numbers add a sense of false authority. |
